Putnam authorities seek 2 men in home invasion, beating of 78-year-old man

Two men are accused of severely beating a 78-year-old man inside his Interlachen home then stealing his car Sunday, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.

Both 19-year-old Michael James Crum and 23-year-old Adam Richard Hale are wanted by authorities on charges of attempted murder, home-invasion robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The victim was beaten with a pipe or stick and suffered cuts, scrapes and bruises on his face and arms. His attackers stole less than $20 and the man’s car. The car, a 1997 Lincoln, was located about three miles away.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the suspects can contact detective David Sanders at (386) 329-0801 or to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at (888) 277-TIPS (277-8477) to be eligible for cash rewards.

You know the Japanese are hiring homeless people to clean up the reactor meltdowns. Instead of preying on the vunerable and poor of the world, Japan should allow us to ship all our inmates over there.

Guys like these are useless anyway. Let them do some hard dangerous labor for 10 years before they die of cancers from being at ground zero of the worst radioactive disaster in history.

It would save us a hell of a lot of money housing these gimps, Japan wouldn't have to violate human rights by using homeless people, and given the huge waste of skin population we have here, the workforce would be larger than the one they have now, and it would cut the cleaning time from two deacades to one.